Aristophanis Ranae
Author : Aristophanes
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Page : 202 pages
File Size : 34,83 MB
Release : 1877
Category : Dramatists
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Author : Aristophanes
Publisher :
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 34,83 MB
Release : 1877
Category : Dramatists
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Author : A. Ranae
Publisher : Рипол Классик
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 21,61 MB
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Category : History
ISBN : 5873157936
A revised text with english notes and a preface
Author : Edith Hall
Publisher : MHRA
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 20,94 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1904350615
Flying to Heaven to demand an end to war, building Cloudcuckooland in the sky, descending to Hades to retrieve a dead tragedian - such were the cosmic missions on which Aristophanes, the father of comedy, sent his heroes of the classical Athenian stage. The wit, intellectual bravura, political clout and sheer imaginative power of Aristophanes' quest dramas have profoundly influenced humorous literature and satire, but this volume, which originated at an international conference held at the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama at Oxford University in 2004, is the first interdisciplinary study of their seminal contribution to the evolution of comic performance. Interdisciplinary essays by specialists in Classics, Theatre, and Modern Literatures trace the international performance history of Aristophanic comedy, and its implication in aesthetic and political controversies, from antiquity to the twenty-first century. The story encompasses Jonson's satire, Cromwell's Ireland, German classicism, British Imperial India, censorship scandals in France, Greece and South Africa, Brechtian experiments in East Berlin, and musical theatre from Gilbert and Sullivan to Stephen Sondheim.
Author : Charles N. Eberline
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Page : 228 pages
File Size : 44,98 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Drama
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Author : Stuart Douglas Olson
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 47,84 MB
Release : 2023-06-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 3111248615
Our knowledge of the ancient theatre is limited by the textual and iconographic character of the evidence available to us: we cannot watch or otherwise experience an Athenian tragedy or comedy. These essays, by a distinguished group of international scholars, bridge the gap between the surviving literary and iconographic evidence and the realities of performance on the ancient Greek stage. This ambitious goal is reached by means of a detailed examination of several case-studies: the construction of dramatic space in Sophocles’ Antigone; the significance of the use of deictic pronouns in Sophocles’ Trachiniae; the theatrical and religious dynamics of the appearance of divine figures on stage; the relationship between the victory celebrations at the end of Aristophanic comedies and their counterparts in the after-performance real world; the investigation of nude or semi-nude female characters in Aristophanes; the staging of Clouds and the opening scene of Acharnians; the meditation on the metapoetics of the use of props in 5th-century comedy; the relationship between performance context and text through a close reading of a number of Aristophanic fragments; the way the scholia vetera on Frogs imagine and use questions of staging practice; and the potential Aeschylean authorship of some of stage-direction traceable in Aeschylus’ Eumenides and Diktoulkoi.
Author : Zachary P. Biles
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 29,23 MB
Release : 2011-01-27
Category : History
ISBN : 1139494724
Athenian comic drama was written for performance at festivals honouring the god Dionysos. Through dramatic action and open discourse, poets sought to engage their rivals and impress the audience, all in an effort to obtain victory in the competitions. This book uses that competitive performance context as an interpretive framework within which to understand the thematic interests shaping the plots and poetic quality of Aristophanes' plays in particular, and of Old Comedy in general. Studying five individual plays from the Aristophanic corpus as well as fragments of other comic poets, it reveals the competitive poetics distinctive to each. It also traces thematic connections with other poetic traditions, especially epic, lyric, and tragedy, and thereby seeks to place competitive poetics within broader trends in Greek literature.
Author : Xenophon
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Page : 174 pages
File Size : 14,92 MB
Release : 1887
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Author : Harvard University Department of Classics
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 25,60 MB
Release : 1890
Category : Classical philology
ISBN : 9780674379244
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Page : 484 pages
File Size : 17,74 MB
Release : 1846
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Page : 484 pages
File Size : 45,57 MB
Release : 1846
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